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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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1. Instruction must include the six basic types of these and the division rules.






2. A spoken or written unit that must have a vowel sound and that may include consonants that precede or follow that vowel. Syllables are units of sound made by one impulse of voice.






3. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.






4. Screening test. Elementary age only. Asks test taker to name the letters of the alphabet






5. Use - pictures - charts - maps - graphs - etc...clear view of teacher - color to highlight important text - ask teacher to provide handouts - illustrate ideas as pictures before writing them down - use multi media






6. State Board of Eduation






7. A type of derived score such that the distribution of these scores for a specified population has convenient known values for the mean and standard deviation.






8. A base word or meaningful unit in there terminology of structural linguistics.






9. Standards of Personal Conduct - Standards of Professional Conduct - Conflict of Interest - Confidentiality






10. Whole language. Founder of Whole language concept






11. A group of several test standardized on the same sample population so that results on the several tests are comparable. Example : School achievement tests






12. A syllable ending with one or more consonants. The vowel is usually short.






13. His research in the field of reading was fundamental to the emergence of today's scientific consensus about what reading is - how it works and what it does for the mind.






14. A score that describes student performance in terms of the statistical performance of an average student at a given grade level. Ranges from K.0 to 12.9 Are not a dependable representation of progress






15. A type of test score that is calculated based on the age that an average person earns a given score within the tested population.






16. Confirmation and Fluency - Decoding skills - Fluency - additional strategies

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17. Involve at least two people. It includes the ability to maintain eye contact - understand body language of others - take turns in a conversation - stick to the subject - and use oral language appropriate for the situation.






18. A test in which a student's performance is compared to that of a norm group. Often used to measure and compare students - schools - districts and states.






19. Anglo-Saxon - Latin - Greek






20. Closed syllable - open syllable - vowel- consonant-e - r controlled syllable - vowel team - final stable syllable






21. Response to Intervention - a multi-step or tiered approach to providing services and interventions at increasing intensity to students or an entire class.






22. Alphabetic principle" and its relationship to phonemic awareness and phonological awareness in reading






23. Changes in curriculum - supplementary aides or equipment - and provision of specialized facilities that allow students to participate in educational environment to fullest extent possible.






24. The percentile score on - for example - a test is the score that represents the percent of other scores to or lower than is. If a student performs in the 85% of his or her class - it means the 85% of the other scores of students who also took the tes






25. Expects child to learn reading as "naturally" as speech - Uses child's oral language as content for reading - Uses child's oral language as basis for spelling instruction - Children learn to "read" by reading and re-reading "big books" together with

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26. Inferential learning of a concept cannot be take for granted! Never assume!






27. Vocabulary stressed the events of daily life - Common - everyday - down to earth words - Most are one syllable words






28. Tests used to identify the nature and source of an individual's educational - psychological - or medical difficulties or disabilities in order to facilitate correction or remediation.






29. Is a type of test - assessment - or evaluation which yields an estimate of the position of the tested individual in a predefined population - with respect to the trait being measured. This estimate is derived from the analysis of test scores and poss






30. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






31. Refers tot he measurement consistency of a test






32. Are standardized and measure your progress and achievements as a student.






33. Final stable syllable

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34. Initial Reading - Letters represent sounds - sound-spelling relationships

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35. Is one that provides for translating test scores into a statement about the behavior to be expected of a person with that score or their relationship to a specified subject matter. Most tests and quizzes written by school teachers are criterion-refer






36. Behaving without thinking about possible consequences. May act or speak without first thinking about how their behavior might make other people react of feel






37. Proceeds from the whole to the part - suggests that processing of a text begins in the mind of the readers. Meaning is brought to print not derived from print.






38. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test






39. 1930 - Psychologist and teacher in New York; along with Samuel T. Orton at Columbia University - developed a non-traditional approach to teaching written language skills. Trained one teacher at a time. began working with Sally Childs and trained 50 t






40. r-controlled syllable






41. The number of words which a reader can translate meaningfully in a given period of time






42. The curved line placed beneath c to indicate its "soft" or (s) pronunciation - as opposed to its hard or (k) pronunciation. Students use the coding on c before the letters e - i - or y (the softeners) - to remind themselves to pronounced the (s) soun






43. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia






44. A pattern of letters (found in a single syllable) which occurs frequently together. The pronunciation of at least one of the component parts is unexpected or the letters stand in an unexpected sequence ( ar - er - ir - or - us - qu - wh)






45. Paired association between letters and letter sounds; an approach to teaching of reading and spelling that emphasizes sound-symbol relationships - especially in early instruction.






46. Academic Language Therapy Association






47. Developmental Auditory Impercepion - Dysphasia - Specific Developmental Dyslexia - Developmental Dysgraphia - Developmental Spelling Disability






48. An affix attached to the beginning of a word that changes the meaning of that word.






49. Children may be physical and socially immature - may be awkward in social situations - may have difficulty reading social cues - may have trouble finding the right words - stammering. - may feel anxious in school






50. Effective for special needs - Uses all possible senses - tracing - saying - listening - looking - Typically called VAKT - Visual - Auditory - Kinesthetic - Tactile - Can be used with either Phonics or Whole Language







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